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"It's time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around." --"New York "magazine
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A favourite Ngaio Marsh title sees Alleyn facing a snowbound mystery
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
This is a very good example of Marsh's English countryside settings and an excellent example both of a closed-circle, claustrophobic, country house murder mystery and of a collection of unpleasant and mutually antagonistic characters.
Jonathan Royal, a batchelor with a love for theatre, hosts a tension-filled weekend party at his country house with seven guests, chosen deliberately because of their mutual animosity. The house and surrounding countryside, however, become snowbound and, during the subsequent mounting hysteria, one of the guests is murdered. Everyone present has a motive for murder but also an alibi for the time of death. Roderick Alleyn, as police investigator, soon realizes that Thomas, the dancing footman, has an important part to play in narrowing down the possibilities.
This is a great read and a 'must' for inclusion in any Ngaio Marsh collection.
Jonathan Royal, a batchelor with a love for theatre, hosts a tension-filled weekend party at his country house with seven guests, chosen deliberately because of their mutual animosity. The house and surrounding countryside, however, become snowbound and, during the subsequent mounting hysteria, one of the guests is murdered. Everyone present has a motive for murder but also an alibi for the time of death. Roderick Alleyn, as police investigator, soon realizes that Thomas, the dancing footman, has an important part to play in narrowing down the possibilities.
This is a great read and a 'must' for inclusion in any Ngaio Marsh collection.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Anton Lesser reading Ngaio Marsh and the 'handsome' Inspector
Alleyn as the hero...what more could you ask from a novel when
being read with such expertise. Country house drama at its best.
Alleyn as the hero...what more could you ask from a novel when
being read with such expertise. Country house drama at its best.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Seven guests are chosen by their fiend-like host by reason of their mutual enmity and are imprisoned in a snow-bound country house to see what results from their tension and mounting hysteria; which is, of course, murder. Throughout, one is conscious of straining for effect, and, until the murder, the reader will find this one of the author’s most tedious and uninspired jobs since the early books. The matter is not helped by a particularly irritating hero, a snobbish and precious aesthete, nor by Alleyn’s late appearance, after which he does little except talk to witnesses. After the murder, if one can accept the large doses of hysteria, both masculine and feminine, the book becomes quite solid, and there is a novel twist on the alibi by wireless gimmick.
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